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Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2008
193 tornado warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 193
- Busiest month
- May50 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 9, 200824 tornado warnings
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Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 32 min |
| Feb 18, 2:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Robeson | 30 min |
| Feb 18, 3:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 3:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 19 min |
| Feb 18, 5:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Perquimans | 20 min |
| Mar 4, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance | 9 min |
| Mar 4, 5:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 28 min |
| Mar 4, 5:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell | 25 min |
| Mar 4, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 15 min |
| Mar 4, 5:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 31 min |
| Mar 4, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 25 min |
| Mar 4, 8:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 28 min |
| Mar 4, 8:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 33 min |
| Mar 4, 10:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 30 min |
| Mar 4, 10:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 50 min |
| Mar 4, 10:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 32 min |
| Mar 4, 11:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 44 min |
| Mar 4, 11:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 31 min |
| Mar 4, 11:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 12:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 12:24 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Gates, Hertford | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 12:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 12:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin, Washington | 26 min |
| Mar 5, 1:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 19 min |
| Mar 5, 1:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 20 min |
| Mar 15, 3:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond, Stanly | 38 min |
| Mar 15, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Robeson | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 10:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 11:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 29 min |
| Apr 5, 4:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde | 36 min |
| Apr 5, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 22 min |
| Apr 5, 3:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 32 min |
| Apr 12, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 36 min |
| Apr 12, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 8:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 11 min |
| Apr 19, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 8:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Randolph | 16 min |
| Apr 20, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pitt | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 42 min |
| Apr 27, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 10:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 1:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Vance, Warren | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 3:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 3:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Perquimans | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 40 min |
| May 8, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 51 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 32 min |
| May 8, 9:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 52 min |
| May 8, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 40 min |
| May 8, 10:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 51 min |
| May 8, 11:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 41 min |
| May 8, 11:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 56 min |
| May 9, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 49 min |
| May 9, 12:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 42 min |
| May 9, 12:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 36 min |
| May 9, 12:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance | 19 min |
| May 9, 1:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 47 min |
| May 9, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 35 min |
| May 9, 7:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 18 min |
| May 9, 8:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford | 31 min |
| May 9, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde | 44 min |
| May 9, 10:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 28 min |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 53 min |
| May 11, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 25 min |
| May 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 35 min |
| May 11, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 34 min |
| May 11, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 46 min |
| May 11, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford | 33 min |
| May 11, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 42 min |
| May 11, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 40 min |
| May 11, 7:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 48 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Pamlico | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 39 min |
| May 11, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 28 min |
| May 11, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven | 26 min |
| May 11, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Hyde | 29 min |
| May 11, 8:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 43 min |
| May 20, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake | 30 min |
| May 20, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 33 min |
| May 20, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| May 20, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 26 min |
| May 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Lenoir | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 1:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 19 min |
| Jun 21, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 10 min |
| Jul 6, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, Rutherford | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 8:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 17 min |
| Jul 22, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pitt | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 10:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 12:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 12:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Scotland | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 1:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 17 min |
| Aug 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 18 min |
| Aug 27, 7:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Hoke | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 9:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 20 min |
| Aug 27, 9:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 10:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 12:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 12:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 2:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 52 min |
| Aug 28, 1:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 35 min |
| Sep 5, 10:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 22 min |
| Sep 5, 10:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 11:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 37 min |
| Sep 5, 8:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 9:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 26 min |
| Sep 5, 9:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 35 min |
| Sep 8, 12:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 16 min |
| Sep 10, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 20 min |
| Sep 25, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 40 min |
| Sep 25, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 32 min |
| Sep 26, 12:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 23 min |
| Sep 26, 10:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 46 min |
| Oct 1, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson | 35 min |
| Oct 1, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Lenoir | 22 min |
| Oct 1, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 31 min |
| Oct 1, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 52 min |
| Oct 1, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 18 min |
| Oct 1, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 23 min |
| Oct 1, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 23 min |
| Oct 1, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Pitt | 23 min |
| Oct 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 25 min |
| Nov 15, 2:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 47 min |
| Nov 15, 3:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 3:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 4:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 4:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford, Northampton | 30 min |
| Nov 15, 4:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 38 min |
| Dec 11, 2:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 34 min |
| Dec 11, 2:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 32 min |
| Dec 11, 3:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 43 min |
| Dec 11, 3:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 19 min |
| Dec 11, 3:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 45 min |
| Dec 11, 4:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Pamlico | 28 min |
| Dec 11, 4:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Warren | 26 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Onslow County14
- Craven County12
- Jones County12
- Beaufort County12
- Hertford County11
- Bertie County11
- Carteret County10
- Sampson County9
- Duplin County8
- Chowan County8
- Johnston County8
- Nash County7
- Guilford County7
- Gates County6
- Wilson County6
- Lincoln County6
- Wayne County5
- Bladen County5
- Alamance County5
- Northampton County5
- Lenoir County5
- Union County5
- Columbus County5
- Pitt County5
- Cleveland County5
- Randolph County5
- Cabarrus County5
- Harnett County5
- Cumberland County5
- Perquimans County4
- Halifax County4
- Martin County4
- Dare County4
- Lee County4
- Hyde County4
- Gaston County4
- Catawba County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Surry County4
- Pasquotank County4
44 more counties
- Currituck County4
- Wake County4
- Robeson County3
- Person County3
- Granville County3
- Pamlico County3
- Alexander County3
- Iredell County3
- Chatham County3
- Franklin County3
- Transylvania County2
- Caswell County2
- Vance County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Stanly County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Greene County2
- Warren County2
- Caldwell County2
- Yadkin County2
- Davie County2
- Rowan County2
- Davidson County2
- Forsyth County2
- Burke County2
- Rutherford County2
- Camden County2
- Polk County1
- Orange County1
- Pender County1
- Washington County1
- Anson County1
- Richmond County1
- Stokes County1
- Wilkes County1
- Rockingham County1
- McDowell County1
- New Hanover County1
- Scotland County1
- Henderson County1
- Hoke County1
- Durham County1
- Brunswick County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.